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Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas ruled that the law violates both the state and U.S. Constitution and is null and void. The ruling comes after a lawsuit brought by the Madison teachers union and a union for Milwaukee city employees.

Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie said he was confident the decision will be overturned on appeal.

"We believe the law is constitutional," said Department of Justice spokeswoman Dana Brueck.

Lester Pines, an attorney for Madison Teachers Inc., did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

The proposal was introduced shortly after Walker took office in February last year. It resulted in a firestorm of opposition and led to huge protests at the state Capitol that lasted for weeks. All 14 Democratic state senators fled the state to Illinois for three weeks in an ultimately failed attempt to stop the law's passage from the Republican-controlled Legislature.

Anger over the law's passage led to an effort to recall Walker from office. More than 930,000 signatures were collected triggering the June recall election. Walker won and became the first governor in U.S. history to survive a recall.

Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas ruled Friday that the law violates both the state and U.S. Constitution and is null and void.

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Yeah! I hope it goes to the supreme court so that this matter can be settled once and for all. The right to collectively bargain has been recognized by the international convention on Human Rights as a basic right of workers.

Not recognized in the in the US

In the US the right of workers to collectively bargain is granted under the 1935 National Labor Relations Act. It seems that it is time to test that law again......

Yeah!.....I think this is an important national debate we should be having. Do workers have the right to collectively bargain for the sale of their labour in the market-place?

Now let me get this straight--FORCING people to join a union and then confiscating part of their pay for dues,against their will, IS constitutional,but giving them the right to opt out, and not join or pay dues ISN'T. Is that RIGHT ?? You idiots up there are REALLY out of it. You should thank God for Scott Walker, and how he saved your pitiful little state from financial ruin at the hands of the union criminals and Communists.If this law is overturned, you will get everything you deserve and will go back to high unemployment,high deficits,poor schools,and brand new Escalades for all the union bosses.But don't forget to pay your dues. Oh I'm sorry,you don't have to worry about that. They will just TAKE THEM out of your paycheck-SUCKERS.

@SESSIT... Seems pretty obvious. The majority of the voters of Wisconsin are fed up with union (including teacher union) hooliganism, demands for wages and benefits that the people of the state are unwilling to pay, and because those who did so in the past nearly bankrupted the state. In, addition to that, on the positive side, Walker has turned the state around and has returned it to a sound financial footing.

Annother way to put it is that "the people have expressed their choice. I surely hope that fundamental of American republican democracy isn't "beyond" you.

Now, as in so many instances recently, a progressive/liberal judge mistakenly seems himself as a legislator, one with a high ego at that, and overrules the people of Wisconsin.

@SESSIT... #4 ... Seems pretty obvious. The majority of the voters of Wisconsin are fed up with union (including teacher union) hooliganism, demands for wages and benefits that the people of the state are unwilling to pay, and because those who did so in the past nearly bankrupted the state. In, addition to that, on the positive side, Walker has turned the state around and has returned it to a sound financial footing.

Annother way to put it is that "the people have expressed their choice. I surely hope that fundamental of American republican democracy isn't "beyond" you.

Now, as in so many instances recently, a progressive/liberal judge mistakenly seems himself as a legislator, one with a high ego at that, and overrules the people of Wisconsin.

@SESSIT... #4 ... Seems pretty obvious. The majority of the voters of Wisconsin are fed up with union (including teacher union) hooliganism, demands for wages and benefits that the people of the state are unwilling to pay, and because those who did so in the past nearly bankrupted the state. In, addition to that, on the positive side, Walker has turned the state around and has returned it to a sound financial footing.

Annother way to put it is that "the people have expressed their choice. I surely hope that fundamental of American republican democracy isn't "beyond" you.

Now, as in so many instances recently, a progressive/liberal judge mistakenly seems himself as a legislator, one with a high ego at that, and overrules the people of Wisconsin.

As soon as the corrupt administration accupying the whitehouse are removed then these freakin judges ruling from the bench need to be removed from office as well. Enough is enough for stepping on the throat of the American people and taking this country in the wrong direction.